Off roading, mud plugging, etc. what's the crack

I just don't get it. How do you get enjoyment from it. Crossing fields and so on is just a pain to me - OK if you have to do it like when maintaining power lines or feeding the sheep but for fun.....explain it to me.

Sounds like you don't have a lot of hobbies?

best fun ever, im out tomarrow cant wait first time in months now with load more mods so should be extra muddy, never know if im lucky mite even get stuck and get to deploy the ground anchor

helijohn wrote: I just don't get it. How do you get enjoyment from it. Crossing fields and so on is just a pain to me - OK if you have to do it like when maintaining power lines or feeding the sheep but for fun.....explain it to me.

Isnt this what 4x4 are ment for getting dirty going off road (more than pumping up a kerb or going up a gravel drive way and driving kids to school ) whats the point of having one if its not used to it full

markyp2000 wrote:

helijohn wrote: I just don't get it. How do you get enjoyment from it. Crossing fields and so on is just a pain to me - OK if you have to do it like when maintaining power lines or feeding the sheep but for fun.....explain it to me.

Isnt this what 4x4 are ment for getting dirty going off road (more than pumping up a kerb or going up a gravel drive way and driving kids to school ) whats the point of having one if its not used to it full

+1.

For me it's about lots of things, social fun with people with the same interest, a good excuse to mod the s*+t out of my jim, fixing it when breaks (granted not always fun), helping my mates fix theirs, getting silly lost when out laning, seeing just how much I can make land rover owners cry inside (this is the most fun of all)!

If it's possible try to drive once as a "co-pilot" with anybody you know that has a Jimny.
You will see him (or her) changing from a stressed person that had a hard week of labour to a big smiling one, from ear to ear and getting excited as a child when he did drove trough a deeper mud-hole and a steeper slope.
You will hear him laughing like a devil when there is a LR stuck and he's driving trough like it's a molehoop.
And when there are some LR's, Nissans and Toy's around the Jimny.... then.... well then it's on it's best !!!
You will feel the Jimny hopping around over the hill's en trough deep wells as it was a bunny.
And then my friend... you look at the driver and you'll see apearing the biggest smile on his face... Jeremy Clarkson's grinn means nothing compared to this one !
That's why we like to drive our Jimny's around on the terrain's and greenlaning it, because it give's us back so many joyfull moments. Even on the main streets you enjoy ten times more your drive then the average car's.
You feel it's alive and it's not a plastic comfortable box you're sitting in... no... it's a Jimny !!!

Sorry, i did let myselve go a 'little' bit...

its fun

you can get the adrenalin moving when you've been over ambitious and its teetering on three wheels

you get a sense of acheivement when you got somewhere a landrover can't

most people will help if you get stuck and vice versa

its low speed so relatively safe if you do get it wrong

its cheap...ish - certanly compared to track days aor buying a Pinarello Dogma and all the lycra gubbins that go with them

Its a good laugh driving home covered in mud seeing all the looks you get from the shiney SUVs

oh and you don't get cut up when you're driving something with half a ton of bumpers and roll cage and many dents and scratches

yes driving across a flat field is boring ...........so you go to pay n plays or green lanes and have a good laugh for the day at much less than you'd waste on a football ticket

oh and did I say its fun

Well so far I agree with everything - particularly the Landrover comments. I still don't get it though.

I think it's like a lot of things or either get it or you don't! I seem to have always had an interest in 4x4's and off roading! I guess it my version of train spotting or something!

Well.. Another on of those threads where you're comparing a modded Jimny to a standard Defender.

A Standard Jimny is not in any way more offroad capable than a Standard Defender, if anything i'd say it's probably worse. The only thing a Jimny does better than most 4x4's is it's small size.

I like my Jimny for what is it.
A great Little 4x4, easy and cheap to maintain and to mod. But way underpowered, and not many options for more power other than putting in a bigger engine. But if I could afford it, I'd get a Jeep Wrangler or Defender. Both trucks have loads of mods available for engine, suspension, axles, shafts and the like.

TomDK wrote: Well.. Another on of those threads where you're comparing a modded Jimny to a standard Defender.

Not really, I'm thinking more about what gets people to want to go out there in the muck and bullets than which fourbie does what. It seems I like 4x4s for different reasons from many on the forum but I like seeing what peeps on here do in the lanes and in the shop as mods. I like customised kit and there's a lot of that on here to keep me happy. It's Jimny specific so I enrolled just like I am in the POCUK forum. I like cool looking vans too and one major factor is the height. Having said that I have no interest in hitting the green lanes or the rocks though dune buggies appeal and I would love to try that - it's the speed see.